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Newspapers, advertising and the Internet: How journalism has always been subsidisedhttps://www.david-campbell.org/2013/05/07/newspapers-advertising-internet-how-journalism-always-subsidised/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2013/05/07/newspapers-advertising-internet-how-journalism-always-subsidised/#commentsTue, 07 May 2013 11:53:34 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=3743The decline of newspapers is a trend dating back six decades. Understanding this is an essential precondition for thinking about the current state of play in the media economy...

]]>https://www.david-campbell.org/2013/05/07/newspapers-advertising-internet-how-journalism-always-subsidised/feed/2Getting paid in the digital economyhttps://www.david-campbell.org/2013/03/08/getting-paid-in-the-digital-economy/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2013/03/08/getting-paid-in-the-digital-economy/#commentsFri, 08 Mar 2013 15:04:21 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=3484Few topics are as potentially toxic as the question of how one gets paid for creative work in the digital economy. But we need to avoid a moralising perspective and develop a more sophisticated understanding of the role 'free' plays in relation to paid in a structurally open system like the internet.

]]>https://www.david-campbell.org/2013/03/08/getting-paid-in-the-digital-economy/feed/1The struggle for the open web: putting ‘piracy’ in perspectivehttps://www.david-campbell.org/2012/01/01/the-struggle-for-the-open-web-putting-piracy-in-perspective/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2012/01/01/the-struggle-for-the-open-web-putting-piracy-in-perspective/#commentsSun, 01 Jan 2012 13:50:20 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=3009The struggle for the open web is going to be a big issue in 2012. Given the importance of the internet to creative producers, its something we should be paying a lot of attention to. And that means, first up, thinking about the implications of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently before the US … Continued

]]>https://www.david-campbell.org/2012/01/01/the-struggle-for-the-open-web-putting-piracy-in-perspective/feed/1Leveraging the web: how people are willing to pay for contenthttps://www.david-campbell.org/2011/12/16/leveraging-the-web-how-people-are-willing-to-pay-for-content/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2011/12/16/leveraging-the-web-how-people-are-willing-to-pay-for-content/#commentsFri, 16 Dec 2011 16:51:54 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=2977Will people pay for online content? There is a willingness to pay for quality content with lasting value...

]]>https://www.david-campbell.org/2011/12/16/leveraging-the-web-how-people-are-willing-to-pay-for-content/feed/10Learning from Larry, part two: what crowd funding looks like from the donor’s perspectivehttps://www.david-campbell.org/2011/02/11/learning-from-larry-part-two-crowdfunding-donors-perspective/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2011/02/11/learning-from-larry-part-two-crowdfunding-donors-perspective/#commentsFri, 11 Feb 2011 11:46:34 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=1789My postman brought an envelope from Larry Towell this week. Sent from Canada, it contained the 6×4 inch photograph (above) offered to those who pledged US$25 towards Larry’s “Crisis in Afghanistan” project. Personally captioned “International Committee of the Red Cross, Kabul, Afghanistan 2010” it was also personally signed. In my original post reviewing Larry’s Kickstarter-funded … Continued

]]>https://www.david-campbell.org/2011/02/11/learning-from-larry-part-two-crowdfunding-donors-perspective/feed/13Making documentary possible: How the Internet leads to new funding opportunitieshttps://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/27/making-documentary-possible/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/27/making-documentary-possible/#commentsWed, 27 Oct 2010 16:42:40 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=1443Finding the money to enable new photographic work is one of the most pressing issues practitioners currently face. Editorial paymasters have been in decline for a very long time, forcing those who want to pursue challenging and time-consuming projects to seek other means of support. Now the Internet’s disruption of the media economy has quelled … Continued

]]>https://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/27/making-documentary-possible/feed/8The ongoing revolution in the media economyhttps://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/11/ongoing-revolution/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/11/ongoing-revolution/#commentsMon, 11 Oct 2010 19:45:29 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=1372The revolutions transforming the media economy continue apace. In the year since I published my five part series on these changes (beginning here and ending here) we have seen more evidence of the overall direction of change. Reviewing my notes from 2010 here are some of the standout developments to date: 1. Things remain grim … Continued

]]>https://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/11/ongoing-revolution/feed/9Thinking freely: New business models for the digital economyhttps://www.david-campbell.org/2010/05/13/thinking-freely/
https://www.david-campbell.org/2010/05/13/thinking-freely/#commentsThu, 13 May 2010 15:48:14 +0000https://www.david-campbell.org/?p=1147Everything costs something and no body wants to work for nothing. This statement of the obvious drives those disturbed by the impact of the Internet on business models for information industries. Individuals declare that they won’t give their work away, critics claim someone has to pay for content, and insiders (like the editor of Photo … Continued